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Family Behavioral Health Health Home Care Coordinator (Patient Care Coordinator) in Tacoma, Washington
*HEALTH HOME CARE COORDINATOR *(Internal title: Patient Care Coordinator)
Tacoma, WA
Catholic Community Services, Family Behavioral Health is looking for a Patient Care Coordinator to join our team of innovators who continually "push the envelope" and challenges traditional thinking in Behavioral Health.
*WHO WE ARE *
We are a values-driven organization, providing family oriented behavioral health care for children, youth and families, provided primarily in their own home and community. Our enthusiastic clinical teams provide whatever is needed to help children and youth remain safely in their own home, restoring hope, providing intense mental health services and supports, and helping to strengthen the family unity. With sites located throughout Western Washington and Portland Oregon, we offer comprehensive intensive, Wrap-around mental health services to a diverse population of families. We employ nearly 600 caring and compassionate employees.
*WHAT WE VALUE *Compassion Diversity Strength-Based-Approach Social-Justice & Our Staff!
*WHAT WE OFFER: *
- *Starting Base Pay Range: *$28.14 - $31.66 per hour
Training & Supervision:
- Extensive training provided
- Daily supervision and support, as needed* *
BENEFITS:
- 12 paid holidays; plus 1 personal holiday each year!
- 3 weeks' vacation per year
- 12 sick-days per year
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance (1 times annual salary)
- Retirement Plans: 403-B Employee Savings Plan and an Employer Contribution Pension
We strive to help children and families live together safely and securely with hope and promise. We serve as a catalyst for change when appropriate, challenging long-standing service traditions in community behavioral health. We behave with Humility, Passion for our Mission, and Compassion and Respectful Interactions. We value learning and offer alternatives and we stand strong to help child-serving systems understand our alternative paradigm while strengthening partnerships. We do not compromise our values.
The CCS Health Home team provides coordination of care directly with children and youth diagnosed with severe and chronic medical conditions in order to increase access to appropriate behavioral and physical health services, reduce emergency room visits and prevent medical crisis whenever possible. This position works flexible schedules in the home and community setting of the youth and families to ensure completion of necessary medical and mental health assessments with entry of medical documentation into an electronic health record, assists children and families in the identification of individual medical goals, teams with medical professionals and specialists to support a coordinated plan of care, and works to ensure the success of that plan.
*JOB SUMMARY: *
Provide direct services to assess child for medical, mental health and chemical dependency risk factors, assess health status and demonstrate knowledge of health care needs and prescribed medications. Conduct a comprehensive health screening and history, including physical, mental and chemical dependency assessment and completion of clinical questionnaires.
Work in tandem with a child's medical, behavioral, and specialty providers to ensure health care services are coordinated and addressing co-occurring conditions.
Take a lead role in developing and facilitating a clinical health team to address the child's medical, clinical and social service needs. Team members may include physicians, occupational and physical therapists, RN's and ARNP's, mental health and chemical dependency pr